USN-1675-1: FFmpeg vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1675-1

ffmpeg vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

FFmpeg could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a
specially crafted file.

Software description

ffmpeg
- multimedia player, server and encoder

Details

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain malformed mediafiles. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted media file, anattacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possiblyexecute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking theprogram.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version: